Friday, March 13, 2009

Amherst Town Ctr Friday the 13'th 2:15 PM

The approach from Umass heading south.In front of Antonio's Pizza (best slices in town). Gotta wonder if the High School let out earlyAmherst College Chapel Hall. With AC you never know. Maybe their chief financial investment advisor died of a heart attack.

What about UMass? You don't sppreciate UMass. UMass has flag poles. And did you take a picture? It's built on swampland so I dunno why all the people in Amherst who don't care about it want money from them. Them being UMass. UMass was an agricultural college in the 50's and up to the middle sicties so all that wet farmland and swamp was a land grant. Then Umass buily southwest. UMass. Not UMass Amherst. UMass. By brain hurts. Ed's Brain.

Interesting point: the state turned down an opportunity to have Mass Aggie located in Concord because the farmland there was not considered "challenging" enough - Amherst was picked in part because the land is some of the *worst* in the state.

In part because most of Amherst has no water table. Ever notice how all the brooks in town (that aren't underground) run in straight lines -- they were hand dug. On most of the UM campus it isn't possible to dig a well, and as to a septic tank, well forget about that...

Then, apparently as now, the theory is that if kids can manage to survive the hostile environment of Amherst, they can thrive everywhere else in the Commonwealth.